And my point is, again, that the same can be said for platforms in the OSS world. Portability is a bitch. It's only gotten easier lately because there are less

And my point is, again, that the same can be said for platforms in the OSS world. Portability is a bitch. It's only gotten easier lately because there are less platforms to support (or how many of us code stuff so it compiles and runs seamlessly in Solaris as well?) So if the point is to have stuff run both in Windows and Linux, then yeah, portability is a bitch. As to makefiles usually work, they do indeed, but after potentially a lot of debugging. I've been through that myself. But the point is, .NET project files, they usually work too. About your last paragraph, I'll just repeat what I said before: The post could have been a how-to, had it been written in the spirit of open source. It was not, though, and so it was more of a complain post. It's all good, though. Someone will find the article and the how-to part out, which overall is a good thing.